Police Save Baby Ducks From Suffering Fowl Fate

Yesterday, two Allentown officers reunited eight ducklings with their mother in the line of duty.

The baby ducks had fallen through a storm grate near the curb of 24th and Chew streets at the Muhlenberg College campus, and their mother was creating quite a fuss over her misplaced offspring, police said.

Officers Donald Erdman and Clarence Sicher, with the help of two campus security guards and passersby, dug at the steel grate with a pry bar. Together, they were able to lift the grate and rescue the fowl shortly before 9 a.m.

According to the report, the mother duck "was very upset until (the assignment) was completed."